There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance–do not sacrifice that to anything else.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERThe best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
More John D. Rockefeller Quotes
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Save when you can and not when you have to.
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Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
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God gave me my money.
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The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
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Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
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I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.
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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
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When a man has accumulated a sum of money, accumulated it within the law, the Government has no right to share in its earnings.
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I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.
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I raised my prices since there wasn’t any competition it was just the smart thing to do. Why would I keep my prices up if their wasn’t anyone to beat?
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Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.
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The major fortunes in America have been made in land.
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Own nothing, control everything.
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Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things fail because we lack concentration-the art of concentrating the mind on the thing to be done at the proper time and to the exclusion of everything else?
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